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WHITTINGTON v. STATE

No. 57308.

523 So.2d 966 (1988)

James Michael WHITTINGTON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied May 4, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

K. Maxwell Graves, Jr., Meadville, J. Carl Parkerson, J. Randolph Smith, Monroe, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Deirdre D. McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

James Michael Whittington appeals from his conviction in the circuit court of Franklin County of murder of his wife Patricia R. Whittington and sentence to life imprisonment. This is a circumstantial evidence case, the defense being that Mrs. Whittington was killed in a one-vehicle automobile accident, while driving a car in which her husband was riding. The jury concluded otherwise.

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